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Jennifer Cook @Jennifer_L_Cook

Cognitive neuroscientist tweeting about social learning, cultural evolution, and social cognition

Joined August 2011
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"High rates of Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis in the autistic population: true co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?" sciety.org/articles/activity… accepted for publication today. Well done @LydiaJHickman. @TheCHBH

High rates of Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis in the autistic population: true co-occurrence or a...

Older autistic adult literature is sparse, and little is known about the aging autistic population. However, recent evidence suggests an increased prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) diagnosis in...

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We'll be doing a sneak peek of our new science-art collaboration with Galway artist Catherine Fleming at the Come to Campus Community Festival birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-… via @unibirmingham

Come to Campus Community Festival

To mark the University of Birmingham's 125th anniversary, the University invites you to a campus community festival weekend of free events, talks, campus tours, live performances, and family-friendly...

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore@sjblakemore
27 May 2025
PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise
Duncan Astle@DuncanAstle
27 May 2025
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIv…
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Dopamine, Parkinson’s and autism | Brain2Bee Project | European Commission @CORDIS_EU cordis.europa.eu/article/id/…

Dopamine offers insights into Parkinson’s and autism

Uncovering how dopamine supports both bodily movement and social behaviour could lay the groundwork for better treatment and diagnosis of...

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A bit about our work on dopamine, Parkinson's and autism: cordis.europa.eu/article/id/…

Dopamine offers insights into Parkinson’s and autism

Uncovering how dopamine supports both bodily movement and social behaviour could lay the groundwork for better treatment and diagnosis of...

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Duncan Astle@DuncanAstle
27 May 2025
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIv…

Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

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New paper out today: A cross-cultural examination of bi-directionalmentalising in autistic and non-autistic adults rdcu.be/elVWE
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Congratulations Lydia on winning the BNA postgrad award
Lydia Hickman@LydiaJHickman
13 Dec 2024
So honoured to receive this Prize - a huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout my PhD (particularly my wonderful supervisors @Jennifer_L_Cook and Joe Galea) @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP @LES_UniBham @MIBTP_BBSRC
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Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the International Society for Autism Research Dissertation Award
Oxford ExpPsychology@OxExpPsy
8 May 2025
Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research! A fantastic achievement👏 @ConnorTKeating @AutismINSAR #INSAR2025 psy.ox.ac.uk/news/connor-kea…
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Oxford ExpPsychology@OxExpPsy
8 May 2025
Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research! A fantastic achievement👏 @ConnorTKeating @AutismINSAR #INSAR2025 psy.ox.ac.uk/news/connor-kea…

Connor Keating wins Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research

The award will be given at INSAR's 2025 Annual Meeting, which is being held in Seattle this week.

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Experimental Psychology Society@ExpPsychSoc
3 Dec 2024
EPS Award Nominations for approval at the AGM in January 2025. Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer Matthew Botvinick Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer Elizabeth Jefferies Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer @melissacolloff Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer @ConnorTKeating
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Connor Keating@ConnorTKeating
4 Dec 2024
Thrilled that our article on knowledge, explicit stigma, and implicit biases towards autism across Hong Kong, the UK, and the US is now published #OpenAccess in @journalautism⭐Was so great working with @Yu_Lin_Cheng & Patrick Dwyer on this! 🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1177/136236132412…

Factors underlying differences in knowledge, explicit stigma and implicit biases towards autism...

A growing literature suggests that there is cross-cultural variation in levels of autism-related stigma, which may partially be explained by differences in cult...

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Lydia Hickman@LydiaJHickman
1 Apr 2025
How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabriel_mackie) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social@dagmarfraser
3 Apr 2025
To address this, we reviewed the literature in our new open access paper "Biological kinematics: a detailed review of the velocity-curvature power law calculation". 🎉 published today in Experimental Brain Research! link.springer.com/article/10… #PsychSciSky 3/9

Biological kinematics: a detailed review of the velocity-curvature power law calculation

Experimental Brain Research - The ‘one-third power law’, relating velocity to curvature is among the most established kinematic invariances in bodily movements. Despite being heralded...

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Congratulations to our #INSAR2025 Awardees Dissertation: Dr. Grant Bruno (University of Alberta) Dr. Connor Keating (University of Oxford) Early Career Investigator: Dr. Charlotte Pretzsch (King’s College) Dr. Teddy Cheung (SickKids)
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Connor Keating@ConnorTKeating
8 May 2025
I am incredibly honoured (& shocked) to receive the Best PhD Dissertation Award from INSAR! This work wouldn’t exist without amazing mentors, colleagues, lived experience experts and participants! Special thanks to @Jennifer_L_Cook for her mentorship- I feel so grateful and lucky
Oxford ExpPsychology@OxExpPsy
8 May 2025
Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research! A fantastic achievement👏 @ConnorTKeating @AutismINSAR #INSAR2025 psy.ox.ac.uk/news/connor-kea…
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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social@dagmarfraser
3 Apr 2025
🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion. 1/9
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Lydia Hickman@LydiaJHickman
13 Dec 2024
So honoured to receive this Prize - a huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout my PhD (particularly my wonderful supervisors @Jennifer_L_Cook and Joe Galea) @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP @LES_UniBham @MIBTP_BBSRC
British Neuroscience Association@BritishNeuro
13 Dec 2024
Congratulations to @LydiaJHickman , winner of the 2024 BNA Postgraduate Prize! Lydia’s pioneering research explores the complex intersections of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parkinson’s disease. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/news/… #NeuroscienceAwards #BNAPrizeWinner #WomenInSTEM
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British Neuroscience Association@BritishNeuro
13 Dec 2024
Congratulations to @LydiaJHickman , winner of the 2024 BNA Postgraduate Prize! Lydia’s pioneering research explores the complex intersections of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parkinson’s disease. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/news/… #NeuroscienceAwards #BNAPrizeWinner #WomenInSTEM
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Connor Keating@ConnorTKeating
3 Dec 2024
Eeek! Thrilled to share this news! It's an incredible honor, and I'm deeply grateful for all the support I've received - especially from @Jennifer_L_Cook who played a pivotal role in this work! Huge thanks to @ExpPsychSoc, and to @DrRebeccaBrewer for the nomination✨
Experimental Psychology Society@ExpPsychSoc
3 Dec 2024
EPS Award Nominations for approval at the AGM in January 2025. Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer Matthew Botvinick Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer Elizabeth Jefferies Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer @melissacolloff Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer @ConnorTKeating
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